Garment package



Patented New. 5, 11323 o e rates FATENT @FFJIQE LEON E. LA BOMBARD MELVIN H. SIDEBOTHAIEZI, F ELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS,

ASSIGNORS T0 ECLALT'Y AUTOMATIC MACHINE COMPANY, OF CHELSEA, MASSA- CHUSETTS, A. CORPORATION 01? MASSACHUSS GAEMLENT PACKAGE Application flied may 3, 1926. serial No. 106,586.

This invention relates to the packaging of means for holding mens shirts in good condition for display in stores or for delivery from a laundry.

The object of the invention is to enable a shirt to be exhibited or examined while in folded condition and maintained smoothly and with sufiicient stidness to enable it to be quite freely handled without becoming crumpled.

Of the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the stifi'ener which is to be assembled with a shirt.

Figures 2 and 3 are, respectively, front and rear views of a complete package, comprising a folded shirt with a stifiener secured in position relatively thereto.

Figure 4: represents a section on line 4-4 of Figure 2, on a larger scale.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts or' features in all of the views.

Referring first to Figure 1, a flat piece of suitable material such as card board 12 is PTO: vided at one end'with an integral foldable extension or flap 13. Preferably said flap is tapered. For the sake of economy in the amount of material employed for each member 12, 13, the lower end of the section 12 is recessed as at 14. This enables a plurality of the stiffeners to be cut from a strip of material with practically no waste. The recess 14, besides providing for economy in the amount of material required to make the stiifeners, as just explained, facilitates separation of the shirt and stiffener when de sired to do so while retaining the shirt in its smooth folded condition. To efi'ect such separation, that portion of the folded shirt which traverses the recess 14: is grasped and held by one hand while the other hand pulls the stilfener out after, of course, loosening the cord 16, and such separation need not disturb the smooth folded condition of the s irt.

The tip of the flap 13 is slitted to provide a foldable ear 15 which overlaps a piece of cord or string 16, said ear being secured by suitable adhesive in folded condition so as tain the in position its two ends ready to be tied as hereinafter described, p fter the flap 13 has been folded on the crease me at.

Preferably the section 12 of the stiffener is provided with longitudinal creases 3 near its side edges so that when a shirt is folded around said section sufliciently closely to slightly contract the section laterally, the margins of the section will be bent somewhat angular-1y relatively to the plane of the main portion of the section and impart longitudinal stiffness to said section.

To provide such a package as illustrated by Figures 2, 3 and 4, a shirt a the neck band of which is illustrated at a, is folded around the section 12 and then the flap 13 is folded on its crease line a: over and onto a portion of the back of the shirt (Fig. 3), and then the ends of the string 16 are brought together and tied as at 17.

The above described operation of assembling the shirt and stiffener and securing them together is eflected in a very short time; less time, in fact than is usually required to fold a shirt and pin it in folded condition. The shirt can be readily examined as fully as though no stiffener was employed, and when dis-assembling is to be efl'ected a simple untying of the knot 17 or cutting of the string enables the shirt to be shook out free from the stiffener in condition to be put on the wearer.

Having now described our invention, we

claim:

1. The combination with a folded shirt, of means for holding it in smooth condition with its bosom portion exposed, said means comprising a main stidener section having a recess at one end and having an integral flap projecting from its opposite end, the said recess and flap being of the same contour and size, said flap being folded against the back of the shirt and secured in that position.

2. A stifiener for a folded garment, said stiffener comprising a main section having a recess at one end and having a foldable flap extending from its opposite end, said flap and recess being of the same contour, the tip of said flap carrying a cord having a length to be fastened around both the stidener and a garment associated with said stifi'ener.

3. The combination with a folded garment, of means for holding it in smooth condition, said means comprising an elongated stifi'ener section having an integral flap extending from one end and narrower than the said section, the garment being folded around said section and exposed on both surfaces thereof, and the flap being folded against an outer surface portion of the garment, the other end of said stifl'ener section having a recess to facilitate separation of the shirt from its enclosed stifiener.

In testimony whereof we have afixed our signatures.

LEON E. ILA BUMBARD. MELVIN H. SKDEBOTHAM.

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